Re: [fpc-devel] DOS GUI

[Thaddy]

Well, I have a statement from their legal dating from 2005 amounting to: "we use it as you intended (sic) and see no reason to quote that this sourcecode is yours. Furthermore, the two units that contain said sourcecode you refer to are protected under U.S. copyright law and are our intellectual property." (It blahblah's a lot more, this is the essence and not verbatum) In other words: closed source.

On 14-1-2014 15:09, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:

Now you can be right and probably you are right but to be legally right in de U.S. this will cost a lot of funds that I can better use elsewhere. This type of answers is not unique to my case. I believe Henri Gourvest has a rather unique addition to some of his his open-licenced sourcecode explicitly exluding said company from using it after a similarly bad experience.

Thaddy schrieb:

It happened to me once or twice ;) that a certain company with ever changing names used my sourcecode and licensed it under their own closed terms because i included the term: "use as you like".

Better: "free for private use".

If the owner wants that not to happen,, choose any of these licenses mentioned. This is really important. Without huge legal fees I can't get my intellectual property back....

DoDi

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Sorry, that's nonsense. You still have all rights on your own software, no need to get anything "back". Even in outdated Copyright terms a "use as you like" should not mean "take ownership".

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